Dead & Company perform U.S. Blues from Playing In The Sand at the Moon Palace Cancun on January 19th, 2020. Click SHOW MORE to read Gary Lambert's notes on this performance.

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Performance Notes
After making a handful of live appearances in embryonic form under the title “Wave That Flag” in 1973 “U.S. Blues” arrived fully formed in the Grateful Dead repertoire early the following year, and quickly became one of the band’s most crowd-pleasing rockers. It was the opening track on 1974’s Grateful Dead From The Mars Hotel and was further immortalized later that year when it was filmed at Winterland in San Francisco, to be released in 1977 as the first song coming out of the brilliant animation sequence that began The Grateful Dead Movie. The lyric, a prime example of Robert Hunter’s sharp wit, entertainingly juggles patriotism with suspicion – not unjustified by history – that Uncle Sam’s a bit of a con artist.

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Dead & Company was formed in 2015 when the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir joined forces with artist and musician John Mayer, Allman Brothers’ bassist Oteil Burbridge, and Fare Thee Well and RatDog keyboardist Jeff Chimenti. The result was one of the most successful touring bands of the decade. The inaugural tour kicked off in the fall of 2015 with two sold-out shows at the legendary Madison Square Garden in New York City and ended with two sold-out performances at the ‘Fabulous’ Forum in Inglewood, California.

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